France and Britain joined the cause after a failed Schlieffen plan by Kaiser Wilhelm. Russia supported Serbia and went to war to protect them after Kaiser Wilhelm and Germany supported the Austrian Cause. Serbia accepted all but one and Austria declared war on Serbia on July 28th, 1914. They were to admit the clauses of a document sent to them. The Austria-Hungarian government blamed Serbia for the attacks and sent them an ultimatum. This assassination set off a chain of events which descended into war. He took his opportunity at fired at the archduke and his wife, killing them both. weekend as the city marks 100 years since he assassinated Archduke Franz. On the way to visit these people, his driver took a wrong turn, right into Franzjosefstrasse, where another member of the Black Hand Gang, Gavrilo Princip had been buying lunch. 100 years after the Bosnian-Serb radical murdered Austrias Franz Ferdinand the city is still divided on his actions. The archduke and his wife were taken to safety, however, he decided that they should go visit these wounded people in the hospital. The bomb hit the back of the vehicle and missed the Archduke, hitting and wounding bystanders. It was at this point that a Serbian nationalist from the Black Hand Gang, Nedjelko Cabrinovic, threw a bomb into the car. On June 28th, 1914, the archduke and his wife, Sophie, travelled in an open top car through the streets of Sarajevo. On the day that he was assassinated, Franz Ferdinand had travelled to Sarajevo in order to inspect his troops there. Thanks to this annexation, many nationalist groups had been created as they believed they should be allowed to join the new independent Serbian nation. Austria-Hungary had annexed the Balkans in 1908 and in turn infuriated the Serbian nationals there. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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